Work With UBL

Urban Bliss Life is a vibrant, adventurous food, wine, and travel site dedicated to promoting a creative, modern, fresh and fun approach to a life of bliss.

If your FOOD, WINE, or TRAVEL company, product, event, attraction, or destination seeks professional, high quality content that reaches a socially savvy, well-educated, sophisticated audience to build fresh brand loyalty, Urban Bliss Life is the place for you!

Urban Bliss Life has the BEST, most awesome, loyal and social savvy readers and social media followers ever. EVER! They are honestly the bees knees. They make me smile each and every day with their emails, comments, and shares, and I love sharing my personal faves and new discoveries with them because they do amazing things like visit the places I write about and try the recipes, wines, and entertaining ideas. If you are looking for a savvy audience with high engagement, this is it. It’s because of them that I am so picky about who I work with on the official sponsorship level, and what I include on this 14-year-old blog.

Food + Wine Sponsorships

I do not accept guest blog posts or unsolicited product samples. I DO work with brands on sponsored blog posts, sponsored recipe development, blog posts, and photography, and sponsored social media content.

Sponsored Travel, Press Trips

All travel stories on Urban Bliss Life are first-hand experience stories gathered from press trips or sponsored media visits. I happily travel all around the globe, with a strong culinary travel story angle combined with family travel and adventure travel.

Please e-mail me for my day rates for sponsored press trips, as well as more information. I would love to work with you to help promote your fabulous destination!

About

As a former broadcast journalist and public relations director, Urban Bliss Life editor Marlynn Schotland is a communications expert who understands how to boost buzz and elevate brands. Her work as a current freelance writer and former broadcast news anchor & reporter brings well-crafted, organic content and compelling photography to each post. For the past 14.5 years, since 2004, her audience has come to rely on the Urban Bliss Life blog, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest accounts as valuable resources for top food & wine, travel, and design tips, trends, products, and event information. She lives in Portland, Oregon technically (but geographically just outside of Portland in the suburbs – right next to Oregon wine country! Cheers!) with her college sweetheart husband (go Emerson College!), two kids ages 11 and 14, and furry dog child, Urban Bliss Dog.

Stats

Site launch: 2004 as Maternity to Madness
Rebranded as Urban Bliss Life in 2012

Audience: Majority of readers are college-educated, professional women, ages 25-45, with children (who do NOT need to know about the latest baby carrier), residing in the United States. We have a readership that spans across the country, with the majority of our audience based out of major cities and large suburban neighborhoods in California, Oregon, Texas, Washington, New York, Illinois, Massachusetts, and Florida.

TESTIMONIALS

“Marlynn was by far the best Influencer I’ve ever worked with! I worked with her on an Influencer Tour from Portland, Oregon to Amsterdam for Sparkloft’s Social Media Client – The Port of Portland. From the first out-reach to the follow-up blogs and deliverables post trip, Marlynn was easy-going, fun, savvy, and highly dependable. I would highly recommend Marlynn to any person looking to gain influencer and work with a professional.” – Alexandra, Sparkloft Media

“Marlynn is wonderful to work with. It’s been a pleasure getting to know Marlynn and working with her on a number of client campaigns (Macy’s, Whole Foods Market). She’s well-known and respected in the community, and always delivers great content. It’s been fun to collaborate, and Marlynn is so easy to work with, it makes the partnership a breeze.” -Chelsey, CuratorPR

FAQs

Q: Do you accept guest posts?
A: No, not currently, but thank you!

Q: Do you do product reviews?
A: In general, no. However, if you have a food, drink, and/or travel product that is of high quality and retail value of $150 or more, please contact me with a package proposal for a sponsored post and giveaway. Note: yes, I AM a mom, but I do not write about baby or toddler products.

Q: Do you do giveaways?
A: Yes, but only in conjunction with sponsored posts (see starting rates above).

Q: Will you post my client’s recipe with our press photos?
A: No. All photos on Urban Bliss Life are original photos taken by me; I do not post stock or press photos, except for the rare occasion that it is required within a paid sponsored post. All recipes posted on the food blog/drink blog are recipes developed by me – or they are recipes of drinks or food from a restaurant or bar I have visited in person and have permission to post their recipes alongside my original photos.

Q: I’ve sent you five emails in the last five days. Why haven’t you answered my emails?
A: First: I adore you, and the brand you represent/blog you hope to launch/event you are planning! I am sure if we had the time to connect, we’d be fast friends. Unfortunately, due to the volume of daily emails I receive and a disappointing lack of clones, I am unable to answer every email I receive…or, sadly, even a majority of them. If I did not respond to your email, chances are the brand/product/idea/event is not a good fit for my blog in terms of audience, quality, value, timing, or interest. Or, if you have emailed me more than twice within one month and I have not responded, your email automatically goes to my SPAM folder… so there’s that. :) I sincerely thank you for your email, because I do know how hard you work (remember: I was a PR Director in a former life! I totally get it!) and I do save many emails that might be a good fit in the future.